Linguistically, many African heritage documentations were written either in classical Arabic language or in African languages with Arabic letters.
Pedagogically, many Africans were literate and well educated before the advent of Europeans on the African continent. Many kingdoms were built on this solid educational foundation in Ghana, Songhai, Mali, Nuba, Yoruba, Zulu ...etc. Perhaps Yoruba language which was been originally written in Arabic letters before the newly freed Yoruba slave, Bishop Ajayi Crowther returned from Freetown to Yorubaland and created new Yoruba letters in Latin letters. The creation of the letters was initially to translate Bible into Yoruba language...
